The study aims at describing productivity growth in the manufacturing sector for a selected panel of five European … countries using firm-level data. The paper explores the empirical regularities of firm productivity distribution across … countries. In particular, we assess the degree of persistence of firm relative productivity and consider its effect on aggregate …

junior segment of the London Stock Exchange (LSE), by means of dynamic panel data models, where entry at the sectoral level …

This paper examines the relationship between foreign ownership and productivity, paying particular attention to two … Kingdom. We find that multinationals play an important role in service sectors and that entry of foreign multinationals by … productivity than foreign multinationals, but the difference is less stark in the service sector than in the production sector, and …

US productivity leadership or could be due to the ease in which US firms operate in their home surroundings. The evidence … would therefore be more compelling if US firms were leaders outside the US. We study the productivity of plants owned by US …

This paper examines the impact of investments in modernization and innovation on productivity in a sample of firms in … focuses on the impact of R&D and patents on firms’ performance and productivity, we examine data on actual investment … achieved higher productivity, and these estimated quantitative effects are greater than the impact of standard innovation …

This paper examines the impact of investments in modernization and innovation on productivity in a sample of firms in … focuses on the impact of R&D and patents on firms’ performance and productivity, we examine data on actual investment … achieved higher productivity, and these estimated quantitative effects are greater than the impact of standard innovation …

In many larger advanced economies labour productivity growth slowed sharply and remained subdued for years after the … credit crisis of 2007/08. Nowhere was this more obvious than in the United Kingdom. We examine the dynamics of productivity … factor productivity within firms, pointing to the importance of a common factor in explaining productivity weakness. In …

’s recent approach to planning has made new large scale entry very difficult, impeding competition and inhibiting entry … sectors have led to increased productivity, though international comparisons suggest that there is scope for prices to fall …